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Teachers Want to Lead Their Profession's Transformation
edweek.org - Published Online: February 7, 2012Published in Print: February 8, 2012, as Teachers Want to Lead Their Profession's TransformationCommentary ByGeneviève DeBose, Claire Jellinek, Greg Mullenholz, Sh...
Bloomberg Blames Negative Ads For Poor Showing In Education Policy Poll
politicker.com - Mayor Bloomberg (Photo: Getty) Mayor Michael Bloomberg blamed a recent poll showing a majority of New Yorkers disapprove of his handling of the schools on the United Federation for Teachers’ ad cam...
Cleveland students hold their own with voucher students on state tests
blog.cleveland.com - The push is on to expand school voucher programs in Ohio, but new state data suggests that students who attend private schools with the help of taxpayer-funded vouchers don't necessarily fare bette...
L.A. Unified bests reform groups in most cases, data show
articles.latimes.com - Graduates celebrate at Locke High School. The charter school saw lower… (Arkasha Stevenson / Los Angeles Times)August 18, 2011|By Howard Blume and Sandra PoindexterLos Angeles TimesIn a surprising ...
City voters trust teachers union more than mayor: poll
nydailynews.com - City voters trust the teachers union more than the mayor to protect public school students’ interests, according to a poll released Wednesday.However, voters strongly support the mayor’s plans to p...
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Tell the DOE (literally) YOU SAY NO TO SUCCESS ACADEMY @ MS50! « Southside Community Schools Coalition
scscbrooklyn.wordpress.com - We still need for as many community members as possible to sign the online Petition asking the DOE to stop the colocation of Success Academy Williamsburg into MS50. BUT, you can also say so to the ...
A Night of Town Halls and PEP Prepping How the Corporate Right Divided Blacks from Teachers Unions and Each Other NYC Educator: A Fine Day for a Sellout Is Tenure a Strike Issue?Moskowitz Aims Charters at Wealthy- So Much for Closing the Achievement Gap
ednotesonline.blogspot.com - UPDATED WITH VIDEO OF JANINE SOPP EXPLAINING THE PEOPLE'S MIChttp://youtu.be/rbDdfAEnJ34Students from Southside (Los Sures) I hit 2 Town Halls tonight --- spending most of my time in my old distric...
Charter schools to get boost under Malloy plan
ctpost.com - HARTFORD -- Charter schools would expand and get more money under a plan by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration to be announced Monday, but some of the additional funding would have to come from...
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Teachers union suing Chicago Public Schools — twice - Blogs On Politics
chicagobusiness.com - That fight between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union about remaking failing schools and related matters is hitting the legal arena.In the first of two actions, the union today a...
Mitt Romney Is Financially Invested In The Birth Control He Now Opposes
thinkprogress.org - Mitt Romney has attacked the Obama administration’s regulation requiring employers and insurers to provide reproductive health care services — including contraception — by arguing that the rule is ...
After Outcry, a Top Official Resigns at Cancer Charity
nytimes.com - Karen Handel, a former Republican candidate for governor in Georgia who joined the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation last year, resigned Tuesday morning as senior vice president for policy jus...
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Workers & Working Families “Welcome” Wisconsin Gov Scott Walker Today. Naples, FL « Continuing Change
gatorbonbc.wordpress.com - February 8, 2012 by gatorbonbcWisconsin … SW Florida residents and Wear Red for Ed has joined with the AFL CIO and many other activists/organizations to rally/protest the visit of Wisconsin’s Gov S...
Finding Purpose, and NYC, at Washington Irving HS
edwize.org - [Editor's note: The author is a social studies teacher at Washington Irving HS, Manhattan. He delivered the following speech at the Jan. 31 public hearing on Irving's proposed closure.] I began tea...
NPR’s Robert Krulwich Provides Another Excellent Idea For A History Lesson
larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Last month, I shared a column written by Robert Krulwich at NPR about talking about history “as lists” and how I was planning on using his idea in class. Today, Krulwich wrote another fascinating c...
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Poll: NYers don’t trust Bloomberg to protect students’ interests
gothamschools.org - New York City residents won’t be appointing Mayor Bloomberg as students’ chief lobbyist any time soon. Nearly twice as many New Yorkers trust the teachers union to protect students’ interests than ...
Modern School: Breaking News: Union Membership is Rising, Declining or Remaining Constant Breaking News: Union Membership is Rising, Declining or Remaining Constant
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Modern School: Breaking News: Union Membership is Rising, Declining or Remaining Constant:Breaking News: Union Membership is Rising, Declining or Remaining Constant0diggUnions and union busting are...
State lawmakers unleash a whole lot of crazy
teamsternation.blogspot.com - Jim Hoffa in Madison last year.It's becoming an annual ritual when state Legislatures convene in January. The corporate quislings who somehow got elected file anti-worker bill after anti-worker ...
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New staff arrives at Miramonte – USATODAY.com
usatoday.com - LOS ANGELES – Two days after school officials announced they were removing all the faculty and staff at a school where two teachers were arrested for allegedly abusing students, new teachers began ...
Sesame Street Welcomes Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor,VIDEO
hispanicallyspeakingnews.com - Published at 2:39 pm, February 8, 2012 Photo Credits: Sesame Street Welcomes Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor stopped by Sesame Street last week to have t...
Beaverton School District says elementary student with 'hit list' is not a threat
oregonlive.com - The Beaverton School District has determined that a boy found with a "hit list' is not a threat to the students or staff at Bethany Elementary. The district had suspended the boy, who is in the upp...
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Whistleblower Hotline Contact Data - Compliance Program
thyssenkrupp.com - The ThyssenKrupp Whistleblower Hotline is available to employees of the ThyssenKrupp Group to report possible infringements of laws or policies, in particular antitrust violations and corruption, a...
Sources: California to Join National Foreclosure Settlement
baycitizen.org - Kris Conner/Getty Images Kamala Harris California Attorney General Kamala Harris is poised to sign on to a $25 billion settlement with the nation's five largest mortgage servicers to compensate hom...
Warren: FHFA Must Help With Principal Write-Downs
news.firedoglake.com - Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard professor, consumer advocate and candidate for US Senate in Masachusetts, said today that the Federal Housing Finance Agence (FHFA) must increase their actions on beha...
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Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Late Nite Posts 2-8 #edreform #ows
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Headlines Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 16 minutes ago Higher Education Headlines:SUNO Reaches 94 Percent of Pre-Katrina EnrollmentLatest art...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Early Evening Posts 2-8 #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Missouri Education Watchdog: Imagine Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 27 minutes ago Missouri Education Watchdog: Imagine:Imagineby AnngieJohn Lennon asked us, through music, to ...
A View From And On Iran: Obama’s New “Diplomacy”
owsnews.org - I just returned from attending a conference in Iran. I kept getting asked about Occupy activism. It seems to be getting more coverage in their media, including PRESS TV, than in our own. Here’s a r...
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Christie: NJEA official should resign over “life isn’t fair” remark
blogs.app.com - Gov. Chris Christie today said the executive director of the New Jersey Education Association should resign today or be fired for comments in a television interview in which he said “life isn’t fai...